Packing cabtkidges



S. COLT Cartridge Box.

' Patented March 15, 1859.

Wit asses:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL COLT, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

PACKING CARTRIDGES.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 23,230, dated March 15, 1859.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL CoL'r, of Hartford, county of Hartford, inthe State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Method ofPutting Up Cartridges; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull and exact description thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked there- Inthe ordinary method of putting up car tridges, as well as in all theimproved modes of packing them, much time, labor, and dexterity isrequired to open the packages for the extrication of the cartridgeswithoutinjury to the latter.

To overcome this diificulty, and furnish a package which may be speedilyand effectually opened, without danger of injur ing the cartridges, (byan experienced or inexperienced hand) is the object of my invention,which consists in the use of a string, wire, or other equivalent, soarranged in the package or envelop containing the car- I so tridges thatby simply pulling an obtruding end of said string (or its equivalent)the package or envelop will be speedily and offectually opened, withoutinjury to the contents.

To enable those skilled to make and use my improvement I will proceed todescribe more fully its construction and operation, referring by letterto the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, inwhich-- Figure 1 represents a perspective view of an ordinary, paperenveloped, package, embracing my improvement, Fig. 2 represents aperspective view of the same, after having been opened by my improvedmethod, Fig. 3 represents my invention applied to one of Boots improvedwood packages, Fig. 4 represents another of Itoots wood packages,embracing my improvement, Fig. 5 represents the same opened by myimprovement, and Fig. 6 the same, having been opened, and temporarilyclosed, and retained by the string, as will presently be explained.

The package represented at Figs. 1 and 2 is designed to be opened alongone of its narrow sides A in such manner as to expose the paper end ofthe cartridges, (as illustrated at Fig. 2). For this purpose a string Bis arranged internally around three edges of said side A beginning aboutthe corner 0, and running thence to the corner a thence to c and thenceto 0 (see Fig. 2) at which latter corner it protrudes from the package(see Fig. 1) suiiiciently to be conveniently taken hold of. It will beun derstood that the string B, is arranged in its proper position informing the package, and that when the package or envelop is completedonly the protruding end of the string is visible, as illustrated atFig. 1. It will also be seen that by holding the package in one hand,and pulling the end of the string B, smartly, and slightly in the direction in which it runs around the package, the package will be cut openalong three edges of one of its sides A which side A may be then bent upalong its fourth edge and the cartridges exposed and readily extricated,when all the cartridges are not used at one time, the side A (being onlyout along three edges) may be pressed back into its original position,and the string wrapped around the outside of the package and made tokeep it closed.

The package represented at Fig. 3 is one of Roots cylindrical woodenboxes, which is made in two parts held together by a paper strip or beltpassing around the joining line or by an entire wrapper of paper orother suit-able material. My improved device for opening the package isparticularly applicable to this kind of package, and is applied bysimply placing the string around the line of connection, between theupper C, and lower C, portions of the box and covering said string withthe paper belt or wrapper, allowing one end of the string to protrude asillustrated. In applying the string to this kind of box, it is passedentirely around the box, so that when the protruding end is pulled theupper portion C will be perfectly severed from the lower (C), the paperuniting the two parts being cut asunder by the string.

In Figs. 4:, 5 and 6, which illustrate the application of my improvementto one of Roots rectangular wood packages, the string F, is passedaround three edges of the plane in which the upper part C and lowerportion C of the box unite, and enveloped, as in the cylindricalpackage, by the wrapper. By pulling the protruding end of the string F,this package is opened by having the wrapper (which unites the two partsof the box) severed alon three sides, when the upper portion E, isopened as seen at F i 5, the Wrapper on the fourth unsevered edgeserving as a hinge. It will be seen that, if desired only a few of thecartridges may be used the first time the package is opened, theremainder being perfectly retained by closing the upper portion of thebox and securing it by wrapping the string around the outside, as seenat Fig. 6.

I do not wish to limit my invention to the use of the string, though Ihave shown it and found it to work well in practice, for a wire or otherequivalent might be made to answer the purpose; neither do I confinemyself to the exact arrangement ber 1858.

' SAM. COLT. [L s] Witnesses:

J. DEANE ALDEN,

WILLIAM JARVIS.

